Barack Obama: “Costa Rica shows the benefits of trade that is free and fair.”

The success of this experiment was never a given.

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.

Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.

I am very happy to see a ceasefire. And I’m hopeful that it holds.